Police Custody

Edward Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 20 February 2007,  Official Report, column 1227W, on police custody, on how many occasions Operation Safeguard was used in England and Wales between 1 January 2006 and 1 April 2007.

Gerry Sutcliffe: Operation Safeguard was reactivated on 22 January 2007. Between 22 January and 30 March 2007, Operation Safeguard was used on 9,380 occasions. This does not correspond precisely to a number of prisoners: one occasion means one prisoner night in a police cell.

Police: Cheshire

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many  (a) police officers and  (b) police community support officers were recruited in Cheshire in each year since 1997.

Tony McNulty: The available data, for 2002-03 onwards, is in the following tables.
	
		
			  Police officer recruits( 1)  to Cheshire police from 2002-03 to 2005-06( 2)  (FTE)( 3) 
			   Cheshire 
			 2002-03 141 
			 2003-04 153 
			 2004-05 105 
			 2005-06 121 
			 (1) Recruits included those officers joining as standard direct recruits and those who were previously special constables. This excludes police officers on transfers from other forces and those rejoining. (2) Financial year runs 1 April to 31 March inclusive. Data are not available prior to 2002-03. (3) Full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items. 
		
	
	
		
			  Police  c ommunity  s upport  o fficer  r ecruits( 1)  to Cheshire police from 2002-03 to 2005-06( 2)  (FTE)( 3) 
			   Cheshire 
			 2002-03 2 
			 2003-04 26 
			 2004-05 12 
			 2005-06 14 
			 (1) Recruits included those officers joining as standard direct recruits and those who were previously special constables. This excludes police community support officers on transfers from other forces and those rejoining. (2) Financial year runs 1 April to 31 March inclusive. Data are not available prior to 2002-03. (3) Full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items.

Police: Manpower

Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many former police officers rejoined the police force in England and Wales in each year since 1997, broken down by police force area.

Tony McNulty: The available data are from 2002-03 onwards and are in the following table.
	
		
			  Police officer retainers (FTE)( 1)  by force from 2002-03 to 2005-06( 2) 
			   2002-03  2003-04( 3)  2004-05  2005-06 
			 Avon and Somerset 1 0 0 0 
			 Bedfordshire 5 2 0 3 
			 Cambridgeshire 8 9 8 5 
			 Cheshire 2 1 2 0 
			 Cleveland 1 0 1 2 
			 Cumbria 4 1 0 1 
			 Derbyshire 19 0 13 20 
			 Devon and Cornwall 6 0 1 11 
			 Dorset 0 1 1 7 
			 Durham 0 2 0 0 
			 Dyfed-Powys 0 n/a 0 3 
			 Essex 9 30 4 7 
			 Gloucestershire 4 0 0 5 
			 Greater Manchester 0 17 35 29 
			 Gwent 0 1 13 17 
			 Hampshire 6 3 19 14 
			 Hertfordshire 5 4 2 1 
			 Humberside 6 3 3 32 
			 Kent 1 10 7 15 
			 Lancashire 5 1 1 0 
			 Leicestershire 5 2 10 11 
			 Lincolnshire 5 1 2 4 
			 London, City of 1 2 2 1 
			 Merseyside 0 0 1 0 
			 Metropolitan Police 46 69 113 100 
			 Norfolk 8 0 0 5 
			 Northamptonshire 1 0 0 1 
			 Northumbria 0 8 1 10 
			 North Wales 0 0 1 8 
			 North Yorkshire 1 n/a 0 0 
			 Nottinghamshire 0 1 1 20 
			 South Wales 22 4 0 32 
			 South Yorkshire 0 6 11 18 
			 Staffordshire 7 13 15 2 
			 Suffolk 1 0 0 10 
			 Surrey 9 4 4 8 
			 Sussex 4 8 2 11 
			 Thames Valley 8 7 18 18 
			 Warwickshire 1 4 1 3 
			 West Mercia 2 3 14 11 
			 West Midlands 23 15 13 9 
			 West Yorkshire 4 3 9 17 
			 Wiltshire 2 5 1 3 
			 (1) This table contains full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items. (2) Financial year runs 1 April to 31 March inclusive. (3) Data are not available for Dyfed-Powys and North Yorkshire.